Albert Hösl

Albert Hösl was born on 14 January 1899 in Munich (Germany). His father was the "Kammervirtuose" and violinist Joseph Hösl, who was a friend and one of the early supporters of the music by Max Reger. Albert Hösl followed the musical steps of his and studied under Anton Beer-Walbrunn. In later biographies given in the USA he also mentioned Richard Strauss, Max Reger and Clemens Krauss as his teachers, but that might be humbuggery.
Albert Hösl first worked as a violist at the Munich Opera and tried to make a mark as a composer. Especially between 1935 and 1945 he was quite prolific and composed a "Festliche Musik" for orchestra (performed 1943 in Warsaw); Serenade for 2 violins and viola op.3; 2 string quartets op.9 and 14; piano quartet op.10; 2 violin sonatas op.4 and 6; piano music and songs (Dietrich Eckart Lieder). Most of these works were performed and and his Serenade published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
As a true National Socialist Albert Hösl benefitted from the coming into power of the Nazi Regime and became conductor of the Warsaw orchestra from 1940 to 1942 and later also head of the music school there. After the end of World War II Albert Hösl returned to Munich but it seems that he could not continue a decent living in Germany due to his history and so emigrated to the USA in 1949. He settled in Ann Arbor (Michigan) and became organist and choir master at the St. Thomas Church there. He also worked as a private tutor for violin, piano and composing as well wrote new works like 3 viola sonatas and a Grand Festival Overture (which might be identical to his Festliche Musik from 1943) that had its world premiere by the Plymouth Symphony in 1950. The obituary mentioned also a Viola concerto which had its world premiere in Paris (France) two days before the passing of Albert Hösl. I found no evidence for this and it might be a fib again.
Albert Hösl died on 20 September 1954 in Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA).

Mein Stern

In my possession is the autograph manuscript of the song "Mein Stern" op.15 No.1 for voice and piano by Albert Hösl. The work is the first of three songs on words of Dietrich Eckart (the others are "Wahre Liebe" and "Schlummerlied"). The cycle was composed in 1938 and published a year later by Schmid in Munich. The premiere of the work was given on 4 December 1938 by Felicie Hüni-Mihacsek.